84 | Every scientist is an artist – Lois Hetland
Professor Lois Hetland , the former chair of art education at the Massachusetts College of Art, joins us to ask: what do artists and scienti...
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Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague.
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83 | How science is secretly driven by analogy – Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a leading thinker on artificial intelligence, analogy, and abstraction . She r...
82 | On being alone together – Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues
Amy Shyer & Alan Rodrigues co-direct the Laboratory of Morphogenesis at Rockefeller University. They are also married. Together, we reflect...
81 | How to find your way by getting lost – Marina Dubova
It’s surprising that for centuries, scientists have left the study of how to do science largely to non-scientists. Not anymore – thanks to t...
80 | Why greatness cannot be planned with Kenneth Stanley
Ken Stanley is a highly regarded researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence. After leaving his professorship at the Universi...
79 | Maria Leptin and creativity in grant writing
Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC , the European Research Council, and Professor of genetics at the University of Cologne. In this ep...
78 | Stephen Nachmanovitch on free play and chivalry
Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician celebrated for his free improvisations, and an educator whose books Free Play and The Art of Is have bec...
77 | Akiko Iwasaki and the art of creativity maintenance
Akiko Iwasaki , a Yale professor and Howard Hughes Investigator, was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2024. Toget...
76 | Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?
To answer this question, we speak with Dr. Alan Karthikesalingam and Vivek Natarajan from Google DeepMind about their groundbreaking AI co-s...
75 | Eve Marder and how Recipe Science ruins creativity
Professor Eve Marder is a pioneering neuroscientist at Brandeis University. Drawing on decades of work with a small neural circuit in lobste...
74 | Martin Schwartz and the importance of stupidity in science
Martin Schwartz , a professor at Yale, is known for his work on integrins and his influential essay “ The importance of stupidity in scienti...
73 | Ethan Mollick and a million Einsteins in a server
With Ethan Mollick , professor at Wharton and author of the bestselling “Co-Intelligence” , we explore how generative AI tools like ChatGPT...
72 | David Baker and the lab's communal brain
David Baker , who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing novel proteins with AI, is a professor at the University of Wa...
71 | Victor Ambros and the unique ways we perceive wonder
Victor Ambros , newly awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of microRNA , is a developmental biologist at the University of Massachusett...
70 | Meghan O’Rourke on being the artist and their caretaker
Meghan O'Rourke , acclaimed author of The Invisible Kingdom, poet , and Yale professor , joins us to explore the parallels between crea...
69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail
Keith Yamamoto , professor and science policy leader at UCSF, discusses with us how modern science became trapped in a system that discourag...
68 | Peter Godfrey-Smith and middle class science
Peter Godfrey-Smith , a Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores with us the differences between creativ...
67 | A hypothesis is a liability
In this episode, Itai and Martin delve into the interplay between hypothesis-driven and exploratory research , drawing on insights from past...
66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree
In this episode, Stanford professor Michael Fischbach discusses insights from his course on how to choose meaningful research problems . Hig...
65 | James Kaufman and the art of creativity maintenance
James Kaufman , Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, discusses the psychological underpinnings of creative...
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